get html source on "Https" website

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Hello Everybody,

I have a web browser in my application which is a windows forms application and in the web browser control I load different web page and i need the HTML source of every web page, but there is a web page that is "HTTPS" and I can not get the HTML for this page even I load this page into IE 8 and still the source is unavailable.

Can any body help me to get the html for the https page please.

regards,

tanweer,<b></b>

Posted 23-Dec-10 2:18am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 23-Dec-10 8:29am

@Tanweer: Can you disclose the URL of this ominous website?

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Tony Richards · Answer 1 · 2010-12-23T02:31:00

Solution 1

Instead of getting the source from the web control, why not use something like a HttpWebRequest to download it directly. This should work with both HTTP and HTTPS requests.

The HttpWebRequest MSDN page, a good place to start:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx[^]

Posted 23-Dec-10 2:31am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 23-Dec-10 10:03am

That should do it indeed! 5+
There still might be something sneaky going on like loading page tha main page content from AJAX, but still some content would have to be there.

thatraja · Answer 2 · 2010-12-23T06:53:00

Solution 2

Have this

HTTPS GET to get HTML Source of Web Page using SSL[^]

Posted 23-Dec-10 6:53am

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Tony Richards 24-Dec-10 6:46am

Respectfully, there isn't a need to use a paid-for component when there are perfectly good built in classes that will achieve the same task.